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Connection, Scaling, Operations – National Instruments BridgeVIEW User Manual

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Chapter 1 Introduction

BridgeVIEW User Manual 1-6 © National Instruments Corporation

Connection

Connection includes the following tag attributes:

• Access rights (input only, output only, Input/Output, or memory)

Server name

• I/O group name

• Item name

• Access path (for OPC servers)

Scaling

Scaling controls the type of scaling to perform on a tag when
communicating with a device server, and the expected engineering
range and units for the tag.

Operations

You can specify how the BridgeVIEW Engine updates the

Real-Time

Database (RTDB),

when it logs the tag data to disk, if it logs events

associated with the tag, and what value exists in the database at startup.
The operations that can be performed on a tag are as follows:

• Updating the Real-Time Database

• Historical logging

• Event logging

• Event printing

Alarms

An

alarm

is an abnormal process condition. For example, an analog

tag can be configured to be in a HI alarm state when its value is greater
than 25. You can set alarm limits for a tag in the Tag Configuration Editor.
Each alarm limit has a priority associated with it to determine the severity
of the alarm.